Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 42

It was quite interesting to look down behind the scenes, and to see how the people walked to and fro on the stage when the curtain was down.

Who acts: people, curtain · What happens: be, look down, see, walk, fro · To what, where: stage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, curtain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 interesting	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 interesting	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 interesting	advmod
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 interesting	csubj
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 look	compound:prt
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 scenes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scenes	det
10	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 interesting	parataxis
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 walked	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 walked	nsubj
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 see	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 walked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fro	cc
21	fro	fro	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 see	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 stage	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stage	det
24	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fro	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 down	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 curtain	det
27	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 down	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 down	cop
29	down	down	ADV	_	21 fro	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			interesting property	tree rules
2	look down	to-infinitive			behind the scenes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind scene=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	walk	past	the people			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fro	infinitive		the stage		tree rules
6	is	past	the curtain		down property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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